I don't know if it's the Carpenter apologist in me, but I find his late-80s work just as interesting as his bona fide classics. Not necessarily as good, but like Scorsese's work during the same timeframe - different, creative. And while THEY LIVE is cheesy silly greatness, I think POD comes close to being as seminal as some of his earlier work. I love the big melange of ideas and influences - Lovecraft, Quatermass, John Wyndham, and all the bugnuts stuff that Carpenter throws in. The dreams from the future feel very FROM BEYOND, and the ooky cylinder and the mob of possessed drifters....I;m struggling to come up with a recent horror movie that crams so many conceits and oddities into its runtime.
Horror feels very pigeonholed right now. Noble efforts are made to break through and be different, like SPLICE, but true creative nastiness feels very much confined to internet fans and the like. I wish there was still a Carpenter out there, a name horror guy makes weird, irony-free horror flicks that defy basic conventions, and who gets them seen.
Horror feels very pigeonholed right now. Noble efforts are made to break through and be different, like SPLICE, but true creative nastiness feels very much confined to internet fans and the like. I wish there was still a Carpenter out there, a name horror guy makes weird, irony-free horror flicks that defy basic conventions, and who gets them seen.
